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Show SAW BRIGHT FUTURE FOR BOY. Knew Enough to Improve His Mind In Odd Moments. It so chanced that all tho passengers passen-gers that entered one of the elevators In a tall building wero going above tho sixth floor, so they had oi.pcirtuni ty to glance at tho hook which the young elevator man had been reading, read-ing, and which lay faco up on his stool. Ho had been so intently reading read-ing It before starting with his passengers passen-gers as to bo almost abstracted, although al-though very lively and handy with tho actual work onco the start was made. "I'll bet that book Is an Indian flEhting blood-and-thunder," whispered ono passenger to another ho know. "No; he's too old for that I'd say It was a thriller of a love romance." "Or ono of the six best sellers of the month," Interjected a third. Everybody was Interested. All wero "rubbering" at the book and when tho group of passengers got out of tho cage ono deliberately stooped and looked at It. "Young America foreyer," he said; "it is a volume of Blackstone. This kid will be sitting on tho bench somo day." San Francisco Chronicle |